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• Apr 17, 2021

• #2,001

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Supermarine Southampton Mk.I N9898 under Construction 21 Feb 1925
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• Apr 17, 2021

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• Apr 17, 2021

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The Southampton was a piece of art. The skill required to build the wooden plank-work for the fuselage really is incredible. Here's a couple of pics of the sole surviving example at the RAF Museum, Hendon - it's just a thing of beauty:

 

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• Apr 17, 2021

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That airplane truly is beautiful. I love wooden hulls. If the the Good Lord wanted us to have fiberglass boats He would've given us plastic trees.

 

• Apr 17, 2021

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SaparotRob

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Seriously, that is a work of art.

 

• Apr 17, 2021

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SaparotRob said:

Seriously, that is a work of art.

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Totally agree, just give the funny rating due the plastic trees, no offence intended

 

• Apr 17, 2021

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SaparotRob said:

That airplane truly is beautiful. I love wooden hulls. If the the Good Lord wanted us to have fiberglass boats He would've given us plastic trees.

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He (she) did

 

• Apr 17, 2021

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Beautiful plane.

For some reason I don't remember seeing it the two times I went to Hendon.

 

• Apr 17, 2021

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• Apr 17, 2021

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DerAdlerIstGelandet said:

Beautiful plane.

For some reason I don't remember seeing it the two times I went to Hendon.

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Did you look behind the plastic tree?

 

• Apr 17, 2021

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SaparotRob said:

Did you look behind the plastic tree?

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Heh...

 

• Apr 21, 2021

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Good shots!

 

• Apr 27, 2021

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• Apr 29, 2021

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Klemm WL 35


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• Apr 29, 2021

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• May 5, 2021

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Good shots!

 

• Jun 12, 2021

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Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H (Yugoslav)

 

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• Jun 15, 2021

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Some examples of "Air Yachts" of the 1920s-30s; luxuriously appointed flying boats marketed to the wealthy.

Loening Model 23 S-1 Flying Yacht (1921)

Fokker F-11 (1928)



Sikorsky S-38 (1928)


Supermarine Air Yacht (1930)


Sikorsky S-43 'Baby Clipper' (1935)

 

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• Jun 15, 2021

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SaparotRob

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I want the Baby Clipper.

 

• Jun 15, 2021

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Aw flaming stralia

Interesting that the first one (Loening Model 23 S-1 Flying Yacht) has ejector doors (rear hinged so that if you turn the handle while in flight it will drag/throw you out)